Puri for Rent is a bold Philippine drama-romance that debuted on the Vivamax streaming platform in April 2025. Helmed by Christopher Novabos and penned by Wiro Michael Ladera, the film centers on Nancy-the jobless heroine played by Aiko Garcia-whose search for stability leads her to an extraordinary and taboo contract: becoming the sexual partner of […]
Lust Stories 2 landed on Netflix in 2023 as the newest entry in India streaming cinema. Serving as a follow-up to the praised 2018 anthology, this edition pulls together four pieces from R. Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh and Amit Ravindernath Sharma. Kajol, Neena Gupta, Tamannaah Bhatia, Mrunal Thakur, Tillotama Shome, Amruta Subhash, Vijay
Virgin Territory, a romantic comedy-drama that David Leland directed in 2007, transports viewers to fourteenth-century Italy even as it wears modern dialogue. Drawing from Giovanni Boccaccios ninth tale in The Decameron, the script slots its plot into the familiar framework of ten young Florentines fleeing a plague-ridden city for calmer countryside air. Hayden Christensen, Mischa
Overview Hotel Desire, a German short erotic drama that premiered in 2011, was both penned and helmed by Sergej Moya. The piece stands out for its strikingly spare yet lush visual language, intimate subject matter, and raw look at human vulnerability and longing. Running roughly thirty-eight minutes, the film follows a single mother who, during
Elevator Lady is a Filipino romantic drama scheduled for release in 2025, and it probes the tangled feelings a woman must face as she fights for survival, wrestles with longing, and guards her dignity. Directed by Rodante Roe Pajemna Jr., the film stars Aliya Raymundo in an unflinching performance as Kat, a building elevator attendant
Salisihan is a Filipino short film that probes grief, longing, betrayal, and the hazy line between right and wrong. The story circles Anna and Dan, a married pair worn down by infertility and the heartbreak of a lost pregnancy. Though they still care deeply, each shared glance reveals how hope deferred has hollowed the space
Set against the bustling newsroom backdrop of post-World War II America, Teacher’s Pet follows Jim Gannon, a hard-nosed city editor who thinks on-the-job training beats any diploma. Clark Gable’s grizzled performance embodies the newspaper man who ridicules classroom theory and insists that real stories unfold only on the beat. His brash confidence is abruptly shaken
Sex Games (2023) is a Filipino erotic drama by Mac Alejandre, who co-wrote the script with veteran storyteller Ricardo Lee. The film examines desire, ethics, and control in todays tangled romantic world. Central to the plot are Debbie and Bobby, an affluent married pair eager to revive their tired bedroom routine through elaborate role-play. When
Ligaw, the 2025 erotic drama from Filipino writer-director Omar Deroca, plunges into the lush but unforgiving hinterlands of the Philippines to unravel a tense web of longing, betrayal, and inner emptiness. Dolores, confined to a remote mountainside while tending to her paraplegic spouse, sees her careful world shatter when Jayron, a spirited and apparently guileless
Ask Me What You Want is a 2024 Spanish erotic romance directed by Lucía Alemany and adapted from Megan Maxwells best-selling novel. The film weighs love, loss, hunger, and risk against a feverish affair that forces two mismatched people to bare their hearts and bodies. Judith Flores is a quiet, wounded secretary in Madrid still
